Prof Peter Terry

Biography

Dr Peter Terry is Dean of the Graduate Research School and Professor of Psychology at the University of Southern Queensland. He holds degrees from London University (UK), the University of Victoria (Canada), and completed his PhD in the Institute of Social and Applied Psychology at the University of Kent (UK). Internationally renowned for his research in the areas of mood responses, applications of music in sport and exercise, and psychometrics, Peter is author of over 300 publications, including seven books, 27 book chapters, and more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles. He has been cited more than 13,000 times in the scientific literature. Peter has delivered keynote addresses at international conferences around the globe and given more than 30 invited presentations to organisations such as the Royal Society of Medicine, the Oxford Union, and the International Olympic Committee. His 2014 e-text, Secrets of Asian Sport Psychology, was the world’s first textbook on sport psychology published under a Creative Commons licence. Peter is Past-President of the Asian-South Pacific Association of Sport Psychology (ASPASP) and a Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society (APS), the Australian Sport Medicine Federation (ASMF), the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM), and the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES). As an applied practitioner over the past 40 years, he has provided psychological support to more than 1,000 international and professional performers, including a host of Olympic medallists. He has worked as a sport psychologist at nine Olympic Games and more than 100 other international events. Peter played sport at representative level in rugby, soccer and track and field, competed in the national bobsled championships, and ran a three-hour marathon.

Employment

Expertise

Sport, Psychology, Mood, Emotion, Music, Psychometrics

Fields of Research

• 520107. Sport and exercise psychology

Professional Membership